Party Princesses Share Their Horror Stories · Part 2

the calm before the storm and everyone immediately goes into total panic. Derby kids who literally run after me and slap my butt and I feel like it's dark, there are red lights flashing, the smoke machines go off and suddenly the stars and Vader are marching. an audible gasp Hi, my name is Connie and I was a pretty princess in New York for about 4 years. Honestly, it was a really wonderful job. This is one of those Horror Story moments, so I look at my contract for the day I do it. above and big red letters at the top of the contract that is stamped there, difficult mom, that's just to let me know that apparently mom has already had some problems booking the

part

y in general through our company.

Now this holiday is for a small period of four years. This four-year-old loves Star Wars, so I'm supposed to come as Rey, but it's obvious this kid likes the dark side a little more because we're also bringing two stormtroopers and Darth Vader. The

part

of you that we do in our company is that we always call parents to let them know that we are usually on the way. The first thing I do when I look at the contract is see what the mothers say. name so I can call her by her name every time I pick up the phone, but that space is blank for some reason, it's unusual, normally everyone else's name is written very clearly there, but it's not like that.

I go ahead and call. I hear her answer. She picks up the phone, she's, hi, I'm telling you hi, it's Connie. I'm just calling to tell you that we are on our way right now and we are very excited to celebrate your son's birthday. I usually have a nice two minutes to feel myself leaving. but she stops me immediately and says, "Okay Connie, I'll stop you right there because I need this

party

to go in the exact direction and I'll tell you exactly how it needed to go, hey, she knows exactly what it was." that's not a problem I'm willing to listen so she starts to delve into what she wants to do at this party she has certain phrases we can say she has certain moves we can do she wants to give me an exact play by play answer of how this is going to play out go ok after a couple of minutes of her leaving and me saying huh, okay, she says, okay, no, honey, I need you to tell me why you think this party is going to end, I say.

This party is going to be so great, it's going to be such a great party and she says no, honey, I need you to say it's going to be a perfect party, I say it won't be a problem, you know, I need you to say that exactly, let's go back to I say It's going to be a perfect party. I'm like yeah ma'am it's going to be a perfect party so I think this is probably the scariest it's going to get and then I'm about to hang out because I don't think we can. delve deeper into anything else she says no to, Connie, what's your sign?

It really takes me a minute to catch up. I'm from Texas, we don't really do this and then I realize it refers to my sign. I say my sign she says yes your sign because she means like my horoscope. I don't like that stuff very much. I don't know much about that, so I was like, oh, I'm a Scorpio, she says, oh, a Scorpio, she says no, that's not it. true, I don't think that's true, I definitely would have given you more Sagittarius, that's what I was thinking I would have given you, but okay, okay, we can work with Scorpio, so she tells me to go through the back door . of the event and then the staff will meet me there and that's where I'm supposed to stay so she ends the call without even saying goodbye and I slowly put my phone down and turn to see all the guys with wide eyes.

Looking at me, I lead all the guys to the back of the event space. I know what usually happens at these holidays is the mom usually comes, she'll say hello, talk to her about a couple of things, just let her know we're all there. there we are ready to go now the event staff immediately runs towards me there is a really crazy and frenetic energy in the back so two staff members come up to me and start giving me a rundown of exactly what is going to happen like this that I put my voice behind the curtain I prepare the fog machines to turn on the music ready to play so I run out and a spray and my resistance Kara runs out and I say I'm ray, I'm roaring because I know the birthday boy is sitting in front because the staff already told me that he's also dressed as Kylo Ren, so it's pretty obvious, right?

I say I am part of the resistance. I'm here because we're going to escape, we're trying to escape. from the dark side and I'm like, oh my god, they're actually here, the curtains open, I press play and the Imperial March starts playing, it's dark, there's red lights flashing, the fog machines go off and suddenly, Darth Vader walks out with two stormtroopers. on both sides there is an audible cast of the kids, it's going so well, the birthday boy loves it, he's so excited that Darth Vader is there, so excited, I'm like, okay, everyone's like, let's all be, yeah, we're all going to go and' We're a pretty neat Darth Vader, we all went up there like to talk about Darth Vader with the stormtroopers.

I think someone realized that with Darth Vader leaving, this was going to be the last pin of the party, this would be the most exciting part. so someone gets in

their

head, well let's take out the cake now because nothing is going to top this, so they decided to go ahead and take out the cake, so they take it out, the candles are lighting up. I quickly press to play my mirror theater. music or seen through happy birthday, blow out the candles, that's great now the staff starts rolling the cake almost immediately. I don't know, oh we need pictures, first you have to take pictures guys, one second, so okay, the cake is back in the middle. stage, I hit the stormtroopers on both sides and they're like standing guard with

their

like spacers and they're standing guard over the cake and then I have the birthday boy and Darth Vader is holding him up from behind and he's like forcibly shooting at the cameraman. , so I go up to the photographer, I make sure they are taking the photos, they start taking photos, all these clicks, everything is going very well, everyone sends me, I feel only a small top on my shoulder, I don't like to turn around , there is a woman there. and she is looking at me and says "you did this" and points out that where the photos are happening now they say oh yes yes I yes ma'am I did it I am part of the entertainers of the party and she was like this I am very happy with this because it What happened she says you have earned my name.

My name is Mandy. I am the birthday mother. Now everything fits. This mother never wanted to reveal her name. That's why it was like that. In the contract she probably hasn't said it she doesn't want anyone to know so now she's given me her name she says I can use it she says Connie we talked she didn't mean yes we did she says you know We'll be the only ones I'll have to deal with deal with for the rest of this event. I would like to speak to you and then to the staff. I would like you to convey to them what I need.

I say yes, I can do it. No problem, I'll probably say one of the lines she told me to say because I know exactly what I'm supposed to do. That's so nice to make it work. I am very interested in doing it very well and Mandy even brings me and she attracts the photographer. to the side and she says take a photo of me and Connie, so Mandy and I take a photo the width of the photographer, she has her arm around me, we take a photo together now, what we're supposed to do at the end of the party is we are supposed to sign a contract at the end to prove that we finished the picture.

They sign a contract before, but then they sign one at the end. This is just to say that the event is completed, so I go to where she is. and in the end I have my clipboard ready for her to log out and she likes me oh no no no no no Connie, I don't do that, I'm fine, no problem, I guess that's what it's going to be because she does things a certain way very determined, she don't worry, you'll hear from me again and she wasn't lying, she didn't call my office and she gave me incredibly good advice for the next three years.

I did the exact same birthday party and everything went well so it just goes to show that a little understanding can go a long way and she actually ended up being a really fun person, she was incredibly specific with what she wanted but she was really fun and We are like four years old. of photos, but we did what we did at all her parties. It was so sweet to see your son grow up, so crazy about it, really good at the end and so much fun. Hello, my name is Abby. I've been a party princess for about two years ago, one day I wasn't really a princess per se, I was a fifteen-day banana, so I get to the studio and I put on the costume, basically it's like a morph suit, let's say a yellow morpho suit with the banana suit on top and then I like it. little velcro eyes up here, so I couldn't really see anything, we had a party, it was about four hours, we made two

princesses

, then we had, I think, five Fortnite characters and about four of them didn't have any similar faces, they couldn't talk. like with his costume, so we went in.

It was like it was hectic from the moment we walked in. as if there was a DJ. The boy is turning 12, what is happening? It was actually a joint birthday. I was a 12-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl, so two

princesses

were hanging out with the four-year-old boy and then you know, the other fortnight characters came out. with the 12 year old and that's when everything went wrong because they basically saw us as punching bags, which wasn't cool to me, so we started playing basketball for about five minutes and then they literally started hitting different guys. kids and just like, oh, it's not cool with this, so we basically found a really weird space behind a pool house so we could go take breaks because it was a four-hour party and we hid behind the pool house. the pool basically every 30 minutes because these kids were There was so much to handle that they would literally be beating up one of the characters playing Marshmallow and Ninja didn't have a face either so he would go back in there and hide it a lot.

The first thing we did was Ninja and I were hiding there and drinking water and a bunch of kids followed us and they looked at us like they were the back of our heads and like they were real people and we were like we can't recognize it, so we would like to go back faster and turn around. We thought, what do you mean? where we're just characters and I'm like peanut butter jelly time and I think I hate my life, they had us on the dance floor for some reason and I think no one wants to dance with a banana, but then I realized that everyone wants to dance with a banana, which was something I wasn't prepared to do at a children's birthday party and I think this is crazy and I'm actually not okay after a while of dancing.

I decided to go. Go back outside and see what the other artists were doing and they were literally eating the guys commercial, you're like punishing him and Ninja was like I don't know what to do so I'm coming out here oh my god let's split up and then. which I don't know who realized, but they realized that I was a girl and that's when my day went downhill because everyone was screaming, let's fight pili and I was like, no, I don't want this. If I didn't get paid enough for this, I had kids literally running up behind me and hitting my butt and I was like buy me dinner first, excuse me, you don't hit bananas without asking, that's just rude, so it's often like hide in the bathroom. and I just figure it out a little bit because I think the funny thing about this is that after that, the dad of the party decided to leave to get the birthday cake, which is weird timing, but apparently he also had all the money he was supposed to that we were going to collect, so we were all waiting for him to come back for an extra hour and since the Fortnight characters didn't want to go and get killed at the Sultan again, we decided to stay inside with the party frozen inside.

Hello I am Karen. I was a beautiful princess in New York City for four years, so we are in a backyard in upstate New York, a big open area and this family ordered our deluxe package, so we have everything we I'm talking: home. cotton candy snow cones popcorn deejay and everything I am starring as Elsa in this event along with my assistant who has come with me because we always go in pairs to parties and we are absolutely delighted this party is going wonderfully the girl loves Elsa She never wants to let it go and all the kids are having a great time there are so many activities to do they are all bouncy houses and snow cones just living life dancing having fun basically nothing seems like it's going to go wrong we have Now we come to the end of the event , the way we normally like to defend is with cotton candy, so we basically give the kids the sugar and then get out of there so the parents have to deal with the sugar high and crashafter, so the assistant.

The one I'm working with today is actually doing a great job, it's actually her first event and the learning curve for party events is very steep because we have a lot of machinery we have to work with, like dealing with kids and painting for the face and balloons etc so there is a lot to do but she is doing great. In fact, he is an outstanding person, which I really enjoy and someone who is helping me, so while I am busy with the children finishing the magic show, I let them pet the rabbits, that's right, we had a live rabbit time , it was great, this girl is going to start putting the cotton candy into action, which is amazing, we will get out of here on time, we will be able to enjoy our summer, everything is going great, the thing about the cotton candy machines is those puppies They require a lot of power to run, so if you've been throwing parties for a while, you know that you don't want to plug them into a circuit breaker that has something else running, you want the cotton candy machine to run.

Unfortunately, it being his first day on the job, he didn't know this and not only did he plug it into a circuit breaker or something else on it, oh no, he plugged it into the circuit breaker on the bounce house, one of the things the biggest thing has. power we do is if you're going to plug those two machines together and together this party is about to end, so with a big smile on my face I turn to see what my assistant is doing. I see her. snapping to plug this plug in and I reach out my hand screaming, don't try to stop her from afar, like I can stop this event from happening, it's too late, she plugs that thing in and everything rings, the party stops like you can't hear anything, just all. the worry and the noise and the DJ and everything that had been playing, you know something has gone terribly wrong and I look almost in slow motion to see that the bouncy castle has now started to deflate, the turrets are starting to fall When the parents now You realize what I just realized the calm before the storm breaks and everyone is immediately in full panic mode like Red Alert, the red alert alarms sound like we're in crisis so I quickly save the bunny and headed over to us because I know that's where everyone is going to freak out and the parents are treating this like the Titanic is sinking.

The kids are just spilling out. The moms are screaming at the top of their lungs. It's women and children first. The ship is sinking. Now I'm trying to be very. Calm down right now and get the kids out as quickly as possible and be really calm because what I know parents don't seem to realize is that bounce houses actually deflate very, very slowly, so everyone is panicking. Full Tilt, but the bounce house is literally falling inch by inch, we have about ten or fifteen minutes before all this happens, so everyone will get out and be totally fine, but I panicked, so let's get the kids out of there. faster than we can. and then watch it gracefully sink into a calm manner for the last five minutes, everything's fine, crisis averted, we're back to business.

I'm already talking to the mom saying, hey, the circuit breaker forgot to turn it on so we can get cotton. Candy goes back into the full fix-it ways we can get out of when suddenly a voice rises above the calm that has now descended and she shouts one phrase, where's Kevin? and everyone is back in full panic mode and someone has decided that the only place Kevin could be is trapped inside the balance house, which is impossible, but of course that's the conclusion everyone comes to . Cerbai crushes the bounce house again, which is now completely flat, so Kevin is less flat.

I know he's not here. there and we also waited for five minutes the rest fell down after we got all the kids out so I know he's not there and everyone is panicking and going crazy screaming it's just screams echoing throughout the backyard Kevin Kevin, where are you Kevin Kevin? I hear a gasp behind me, we all turn and the silhouette of a five-year-old boy stands in the doorway holding a red snow cone dripping down his face as he stares. at the devastation that's happening in this backyard and I care if someone says oh, there's Kevin.

Turns out Kevin had just been inside getting his snow cone and the whole time he was completely safe and no kids were hurt in the slightest, so he made it through. party completely unscathed even though the bounce house collapsed, it was quite dramatic at one point, omg everyone still had a lot of fun and we got cotton candy anyway.